Scottish Executive

Animal Welfare

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to fully fund animal welfare.

Ross Finnie: The Scottish Executive fund the enforcement of animal welfare on-farm and in abattoirs. I have no plans for additional funding of animal welfare.

Care of Elderly People

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how much it would cost annually to provide all residential care and home provision for elderly people in the public sector and whether bringing such provision fully into the public sector would improve the standards of care and security for elderly people.

Mr Tom McCabe: Complete costings relating to the provision of residential care and the provision of care at home services is not currently available. The great majority of care home places are, however, already funded by local authorities, to varying levels depending on the financial assessment of individual residents' resources. A range and capacity review of community care services for older people is also currently under way, which will include a financial review.

  Under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act, the Care Commission is required to regulate a range of care services. Care homes have been regulated by the Care Commission since April 2002 and we expect the regulation of care at home services to commence around December 2003. All care services are, or will be, regulated by the commission against the appropriate National Care Standards which apply equally to the public and independent sector.

Community Safety

Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what funding will be made available over the next four years to enable local communities to purchase CCTV cameras.

Hugh Henry: The Community Safety Partnership Award Programme, established in 2002, will continue to make £4 million per annum available to local authority-led Community Safety Partnerships to assist them in identifying and addressing local community safety priorities, including CCTV. As part of Partnership Agreement funding announced recently, an additional £1 million will be allocated in 2005-06 specifically for CCTV. Other Executive funding streams, such as Quality of Life funding, will also been used to fund local CCTV systems within the next four years.

Concessionary Travel

John Swinburne (Central Scotland) (SSCUP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1612 by Nicol Stephen on 21 August 2003, when its consultation process on the introduction of a national free off-peak bus scheme for older people and people with disabilities will take place.

Nicol Stephen: The formal consultation will start later this year.

Concessionary Travel

John Swinburne (Central Scotland) (SSCUP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1612 by Nicol Stephen on 21 August 2003, what form its consultation process on the introduction of a national free off-peak bus scheme for older people and people with disabilities will take.

Nicol Stephen: In line with standard practice, we will issue a consultation paper and seek comments widely on the proposals which it sets out.

Concessionary Travel

John Swinburne (Central Scotland) (SSCUP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1612 by Nicol Stephen on 21 August 2003, whether it will consult senior citizens, senior citizens' forums and elderly groups during its consultation process on the introduction of a national free off-peak bus scheme for older people and people with disabilities.

Nicol Stephen: Yes. We will consult widely. Those consulted will include groups representing older people and we will also welcome comments from individuals.

Concessionary Travel

John Swinburne (Central Scotland) (SSCUP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1613 by Nicol Stephen on 21 August 2003, whether its plans to extend concessionary fare schemes on public transport will include concessions for older people and people with disabilities on modes of public transport other than buses.

Nicol Stephen: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-1613 on 20 August 2003, which is available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

  http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Education

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated annual cost would be of providing a dedicated physical and recreational educational instructor in every primary school and whether it will promote the provision of 60 minutes of physical and recreational education a day within each primary school.

Peter Peacock: In order to teach in education authority primary schools, it is necessary to hold a teaching qualification and be registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland. Based on the final point of the unpromoted teachers scale, the annual salary costs associated with a physical education teacher in every publicly funded primary school would be approximately £80 million. However, due to the size of some primary schools, the provision of a single teacher in each school would be insufficient to provide 60 minutes of physical education a day for each pupil.

  Health-related levels of physical activity for children and young people mean being active for an hour a day on most days of the week. The School Improvement Framework encourages primary schools to provide a range of activities that enable children and young people to be physically active for at least an hour a day. These activities are not necessarily provided exclusively through physical education teachers.

Fisheries

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has employed to register the number of seals active in (a) freshwater and (b) sea water areas and whether there are any assessments of the impact of seals on freshwater and sea water fish stocks.

Allan Wilson: The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has a statutory duty to provide advice to Scottish ministers on seals, which includes assessments of the grey seal and common seal populations undertaken by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) at St Andrews University. These assessments are based on surveys carried out when most seals are onshore to breed or moult and do not reflect their distribution at other times when locating them is more difficult.

  The SMRU has also been collecting data on seal distribution at other times, which indicates that the vast majority of seals forage at sea and very few spend any time in fresh waters. the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Scottish Natural Heritage and NERC and is due to report late in 2004.

Fisheries

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to a humane seal-culling exercise to protect freshwater and sea water fish stocks; what European directives are applicable on the issue, and what representations it has made, or discussions it has had, with (a) Her Majesty's Government and (b) the European Union on the matter.

Allan Wilson: There are no current plans for a seal-cull in Scottish waters and there have therefore been no discussions. The current scientific advice is that even a major seal cull would not have a predictable effect on fish stocks because of the existence of other pressures on fish stocks including predation from other fish, seabirds and cetaceans.

  The Habitats Directive (EC Directive 92/43/EEC) makes provision for grey and common seals and any consideration of a seal cull would need to satisfy the terms of this Directive.

Forestry

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to protect Scotland's ancient woodlands.

Allan Wilson: Our policies are set out in the Scottish Forestry Strategy which aims to meet Habitat Action Plan targets for maintaining, expanding and restoring native woodlands, including ancient woodlands. Priority themes for current action include improving management of semi-natural woodlands and extending and enhancing native woodlands by developing forest habitat networks. Detailed guidelines for ancient and native woodland management and protection are contained in the UK Forestry Standard and associated documents and felling licences and grant aid through the Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme (SFGS) is conditional on these a guidelines being followed. Management of the national forest estate is also expected to follow these guidelines.

  A high proportion of ancient woodlands are protected by designation as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) or Special Areas of Conservation (SAC). Under the proposals in the Nature Conservation Bill, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) would have increased powers to encourage and fund management to bring these sites into favourable condition.

Forestry

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to encourage the certification of forests managed by local authorities in line with the UK Forest Partnership for Action.

Allan Wilson: The UK Forest Partnership for Action is a unique initiative, whose members - forest and forest products industries, environmental groups, the Executive and the other administrations in the UK - have agreed to work in partnership to promote sustainable development in the forestry sector across the UK and abroad. One of the aims of the partnership is to increase the area of independently certified forest from 40% to 60% over the next five years.

  I am pleased to say that all of ministers’ forest estate, managed by Forestry Commission Scotland is certified. In addition, elements of the new Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme can be used by owners, such as local authorities, to help fund the preparation of plans and work within woodlands, which will help them to secure certification. We have also organised a conference on 30 October called Woods in and Around Towns. This event brings together a wide range of partners, including local authorities, to share existing and to find new ways to improve the quality of life of people in urban communities through the creation and sustainable management of woods in and around towns.

Forestry

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to encourage multi-benefit forestry practices by forest owners and managers across Scotland.

Allan Wilson: Following publication of our Forestry Strategy Forests for Scotland  in 2000, the Woodland Grant Scheme and Farm Woodland Premium Scheme were subject to a review and recently given a greater Scottish focus. The review concluded that the new grant scheme should produce closer links with policy priorities, including perceived public benefits.

  The resulting new Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme, launched this year, has been designed to encourage the sustainable creation and management of woods and forests to provide economic, environmental and social benefits now and in the future. Grants are available for creating new woodlands; for replanting following felling and stewardship grants are available for a range of activities to manage and improve existing woodlands. All proposals should comply with the UK Forestry Standard which sets out criteria and standards for multi-benefit forestry practice and the sustainable management of our forests and woodlands.

Forestry

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has set for the afforestation of less favoured area (LFA) and non-LFA agricultural land

Allan Wilson: In reviewing the Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) and Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS), the steering group (representing forestry, farming and environmental interests) recommended that Farmland Premium payment rates be simplified to fit three categories: non-LFA (arable and improved grassland); LFA (arable and improved grassland), and unimproved land. No specific category targets were set.

Forestry

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the level of funding available under the Scottish Forestry Grants: Farmland Premium to increase the diversity of the farmed landscape and provide an opportunity to integrate forestry and farming, helping to ensure that complementary land use can enhance overall environmental value, as referred to in the Scottish Forestry Strategy.

Allan Wilson: The level of funding available for the Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme/Farmland Premium is assessed regularly to ensure sufficient funds are available to meet demands from those wishing to enter the scheme. Assessment is also carried out to ensure funds are available to accommodate the on-going commitments from the previous Farm Woodland Scheme and Farm Woodland Premium scheme.

Forestry

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive how it will monitor the success of the Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme (SFGS) and the SFGS: Farmland Premium scheme in achieving the goals set out in the Scottish Forestry Strategy.

Allan Wilson: A review will be carried out in 2004 in order to assess the uptake of the SFGS and SFGS: Farmland Premium. This will examine the level of demand for individual components of the grants scheme and compare overall uptake with the former Woodland Grants Scheme and the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme. A monitoring and evaluation needs analysis has been carried out and planned technical developments include the construction of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based approach that will provide us with more data than we currently have available.

Foster Care

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide encouragement and funding to local authorities to fund people who provide foster care for their grandchildren and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.

Euan Robson: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2O-221 on 19 June 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/sch/search

General Practitioners

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made representations to the General Medical Council regarding the registration of qualified foreign nationals who wish to work in Scotland as general practitioners.

Malcolm Chisholm: All doctors who wish to practice in the United Kingdom must be registered with the General Medical Council. Doctors wishing to work in the general medical services as a general practitioner within the United Kingdom, other than a trainee practitioner, require to hold certificates of prescribed or equivalent experience as required by the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice.

Health

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths there were as a result of mesothelioma in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board area.

Hugh Henry: Before 2000, the information held centrally did not identify separately the cases where mesothelioma was the underlying cause of death. Because of this, the following table gives the numbers of deaths where mesothelioma was mentioned on the death certificate, whether as the underlying cause of death or as another factor.

  Deaths in Scotland where Mesothelioma was Mentioned on the Death Certificate, 1993-2002 by NHS Board Area

  

 

1993 
  

1994 
  

1995 
  

1996 
  

1997 
  

1998 
  

1999 
  

2000 
  

2001 
  

2002 
  



Scotland 
  

118 
  

129 
  

153 
  

140 
  

133 
  

155 
  

158 
  

138 
  

160 
  

169 
  



Argyll and Clyde 
  

20 
  

20 
  

24 
  

25 
  

23 
  

25 
  

22 
  

19 
  

23 
  

19 
  



Ayrshire and Arran 
  

7 
  

11 
  

6 
  

6 
  

8 
  

13 
  

9 
  

12 
  

11 
  

11 
  



Borders 
  

- 
  

- 
  

3 
  

3 
  

- 
  

- 
  

1 
  

1 
  

2 
  

3 
  



Dumfries and Galloway 
  

3 
  

2 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

3 
  

2 
  

6 
  

2 
  

1 
  



Fife 
  

6 
  

12 
  

14 
  

11 
  

7 
  

11 
  

11 
  

11 
  

11 
  

9 
  



Forth Valley 
  

2 
  

4 
  

6 
  

6 
  

3 
  

2 
  

6 
  

8 
  

11 
  

9 
  



Grampian 
  

8 
  

5 
  

9 
  

10 
  

14 
  

11 
  

14 
  

9 
  

16 
  

9 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

40 
  

44 
  

43 
  

36 
  

41 
  

34 
  

41 
  

29 
  

32 
  

41 
  



Highland 
  

5 
  

4 
  

6 
  

3 
  

1 
  

7 
  

9 
  

2 
  

1 
  

4 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

12 
  

13 
  

12 
  

16 
  

14 
  

22 
  

11 
  

11 
  

16 
  

23 
  



Lothian 
  

14 
  

12 
  

23 
  

11 
  

12 
  

14 
  

22 
  

17 
  

22 
  

27 
  



Orkney 
  

- 
  

- 
  

1 
  

- 
  

- 
  

2 
  

- 
  

1 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Shetland 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

1 
  

- 
  

1 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Tayside 
  

1 
  

2 
  

4 
  

11 
  

9 
  

10 
  

10 
  

11 
  

13 
  

11 
  



Western Isles 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  

1 
  

- 
  

2

Health

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many thoracic consultants are employed by each NHS board.

Malcolm Chisholm: ISD collect information on Cardio-thoracic Surgery consultants. The current data is included in the table.

  Table 1: Number of Cardio-thoracic Surgery Consultants by Health Board at 30 September 2002

  


Health Board 
  

Headcount 
  

WTE 
  



Argyll and Clyde 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Ayrshire and Arran 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Borders 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Dumfries and Galloway 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Fife 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Forth Valley 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Grampian 
  

 4 
  

 4.0 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

 13 
  

 12.3 
  



Highland 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

 2 
  

 2.0 
  



Lothian 
  

 6 
  

 6.0 
  



Orkney 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Shetland 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Tayside 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Western Isles 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Common Services Agency 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Golden Jubilee National Hospital 
  

 1 
  

 1.0 
  



State Hospital 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Special Health Boards 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Totals 
  

26 
  

25.3 
  



  Source: Medical and Dental Census, ISD Scotland.

Health

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate has been made of the number of ex-servicemen requiring screening for mesothelioma and in which hospitals provision for such screening is being made and what contact it has had, in order to reach such an estimate, with the Ministry of Defence regarding which Royal Navy vessels were supplied with asbestos during the years of conscription, how many such vessels were based in Scottish ports and how many servicemen were employed on the vessels.

Malcolm Chisholm: There is no effective screening test for mesothelioma. No provision has therefore been made to screen ex-servicemen.

Health

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what regulations apply to the use of platelets in blood transfusion.

Malcolm Chisholm: Platelets are produced for NHSScotland by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) in premises, and to protocols and standards, approved and inspected by the Medical and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), (formerly, the Medicines Control Agency).

  The use of platelets in hospitals comes under the responsibility of Consultant Haematologists responsible for blood banks who currently work to professional guidelines, such as the British Committee for Standards in Haematology "Guideline for Platelet Transfusions" 1992.

  The EU Blood Directive 2002/98/EC, which will be transposed into UK law within two years, will provide a legal framework for platelets as a product. The directive, adopted in December 2002, sets standards of quality and safety for the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of human blood and blood components.

Health

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what record has been kept by each NHS board of the use of platelets since 1999.

Malcolm Chisholm: This information is not held centrally. Individual hospital blood banks keep records of recipients of platelets and other blood components.

  Bulk issues of platelet concentrate to NHSScotland by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service for each year since 1999 has been around 23,500 therapeutic units.

Health

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the number of lives lost through the unavailability of organs for transplant over the last five years.

Malcolm Chisholm: The information requested is set out in the following table. The figures relate to Scottish patients on the waiting lists for all organs.

  


1998 
  

1999 
  

2000 
  

2001 
  

2002 
  



51 
  

51 
  

58 
  

48 
  

44 
  



  Source: UK Transplant.

Hepatitis

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether any NHS board has recorded an increased risk of hepatitis B infection since 1999.

Malcolm Chisholm: Confirmed cases of hepatitis B infection by the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH) each year between 1999 (which saw the highest number of cases since the mid-1980s) and 2002, suggest that there was no recorded increased risk of hepatitis B infection during that period across Scotland. However, recorded cases by NHS board area have fluctuated over this period. These data, by NHS board area, can be accessed through the following web link - http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/scieh/infectious/hepatitisb/infhepatitisb.htm.

Local Government Finance

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to establish an independent review into local government finance; whether the remit of such a review will include looking at various methods of raising revenue to pay for local government jobs and services; how long it envisages such an independent review will take to complete its work, and whether it plans to replace the council tax with an alternative tax.

Mr Andy Kerr: We are discussing the independent review into local government finance with COSLA. The timing, remit and format of the review will be decided in the light of those discussions.

Meat Industry

Mr Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure the re-opening and continued viability of the Wick slaughterhouse.

Ross Finnie: I understand that the abattoir has recently been acquired by a local businessman, initially for a three-month trial period but with a view to longer term operation. The plant recommenced slaughtering on 2 September. While the Executive cannot ensure continued viability of any commercial business, there are some avenues of assistance which could be explored. These include the Processing and Marketing Grants schemes operated by the Executive. These are competitive schemes which support projects to improve processing and marketing of agricultural produce and can offer grants towards the capital cost of new buildings, refurbishment of existing buildings and purchase of equipment. I understand that funding may also be available through Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

Meat Industry

Mr Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to encourage the establishment of new fit-for-purpose slaughterhouses in rural areas.

Ross Finnie: The establishment of slaughterhouses in rural or other areas is a commercial decision for independent operators. Grants are available from the Executive under the Agricultural Processing and Marketing Grants schemes towards the costs of new slaughterhouses if the project is viable and meets the specific criteria of the scheme.

Mental Health

Mrs Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many atypical anti-psychotic medicines for the treatment of schizophrenia have been dispensed by (a) community pharmacists and (b) doctors in each NHS board area in the last two years.

Malcolm Chisholm: The following table shows the total number of prescribed items for atypical anti-psychotic medicines dispensed by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors. These data do not take into account medicines dispensed by hospitals or hospital-based clinics.

  Atypical anti-psychotic medicines are used mainly in the treatment of schizophrenia, but can be used to treat other conditions.

  Atypical Antipsychotic Medicines – Number of Prescribed Items

  


NHS Board 
  

Community Pharmacists 
  

Dispensing Doctors 
  

Total 
  



2001-02 
  

2002-03 
  

2001-02 
  

2002-03 
  

2001-02 
  

2002-03 
  



Argyll and Clyde 
  

21,389 
  

26,625 
  

1,095 
  

1,811 
  

22,484 
  

28,436 
  



Ayrshire and Arran 
  

14,465 
  

18,415 
  

253 
  

424 
  

14,718 
  

18,839 
  



Borders 
  

2,664 
  

3,249 
  

103 
  

171 
  

2,767 
  

3,420 
  



Dumfries and Galloway 
  

6,474 
  

8,298 
  

563 
  

723 
  

7,037 
  

9,021 
  



Fife 
  

12,201 
  

15,120 
  

112 
  

82 
  

12,313 
  

15,202 
  



Forth Valley 
  

12,057 
  

15,417 
  

289 
  

437 
  

12,346 
  

15,854 
  



Grampian 
  

13,813 
  

18,297 
  

507 
  

668 
  

14,320 
  

18,965 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

37,463 
  

47,575 
  

0 
  

0 
  

37,463 
  

47,575 
  



Highland 
  

5,133 
  

7,164 
  

478 
  

641 
  

5,611 
  

7,805 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

20,085 
  

27,001 
  

447 
  

534 
  

20,532 
  

27,535 
  



Lothian 
  

21,032 
  

25,525 
  

59 
  

82 
  

21,091 
  

25,607 
  



Orkney 
  

258 
  

475 
  

68 
  

186 
  

326 
  

661 
  



Shetland 
  

321 
  

410 
  

271 
  

369 
  

592 
  

779 
  



Tayside 
  

13,807 
  

20,513 
  

123 
  

176 
  

13,930 
  

20,689 
  



Western Isles 
  

237 
  

415 
  

382 
  

544 
  

619 
  

959 
  



All NHS Boards 
  

181,399 
  

234,499 
  

4,750 
  

6,848 
  

186,149 
  

241,347

Mental Health

Mrs Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that the NHS takes account of advice from the Health Technology Board for Scotland on the use of modern atypical anti-psychotic medicines for people with schizophrenia.

Malcolm Chisholm: On 25 July 2003 NHS Quality Improvement Scotland advised NHSScotland that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance on the use of newer (atypical) antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of schizophrenia is as valid for Scotland as it is for England and Wales.

  NHSScotland has been advised that it should take account of advice and evidence from NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and ensure that recommended drugs or treatments are made available to meet clinical need. Likewise, individual clinicians should take account of the board's evidence-based guidance when exercising their clinical judgement.

Mental Health

Mrs Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland about the steps required to address issues highlighted by the national overview on schizophrenia published by the board in March 2002 and what the outcome was of any such discussions.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive Health Department has on-going discussions with NHS Quality Improvement Scotland on a range of issues, including the follow up to its published schizophrenia standards. One outcome has been the current review of service compliance with the remaining schizophrenia standards which will report early next year. Services have also been invited to report on progress with implementation of the first set of standards and outcomes will be published next year as part of the current review report.

Mental Health

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how it has monitored the implementation of the recommendations of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland Working Group on Standards for Schizophrenia.

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to review the implementation of the recommendations of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland Working Group on Standards for Schizophrenia.

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many health trusts have fully implemented the recommendations of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland Working Group on Standards for Schizophrenia.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Clinical Standards Board for Scotland was incorporated into NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) in January 2003. The review of the schizophrenia standards is being approached in two phases. Phase 1 reports were published in March 2002. NHS QIS are currently visiting each trust that provides mental health services, reviewing phase 2 of the standards. Trusts are also being asked to update on progress for the implementation of the recommendations from phase 1. The outcome of the reviews will be published in the summer of 2004.

NHS Hospitals

Mr David Davidson (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make information on the legal standing, constitution and articles of association for the Scottish Independent Hospitals Association available, in light of the National Care Commission having made it a requirement of registration that independent hospitals in Scotland are members of the Scottish Independent Hospitals Association.

Mr Tom McCabe: Independent hospitals in Scotland have been regulated by the Care Commission under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 since 1 April 2002. The Care Commission has confirmed that membership of the Scottish Independent Hospital Association is not a requirement of registration for independent hospitals.

NHS Waiting Lists

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were on waiting lists for assessments for aids and adaptations on 1 April in each of the last five years.

Mr Tom McCabe: Information on waiting lists for aids and adaptations is not held centrally. However, the Executive is currently considering the future collection of this information.

NHS Waiting Lists

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are on waiting lists for assessments for community care services, broken down by NHS board area.

Mr Tom McCabe: This information is not held centrally.

NHS Waiting Lists

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are on waiting lists for bathing and showering services, broken down by NHS board.

Mr Tom McCabe: Information on waiting lists for bathing and showering services is not held centrally.

NHS Waiting Lists

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are currently on waiting lists for aids and adaptations, broken down by local authority area.

Mr Tom McCabe: Information about waiting lists for aids and adaptations is not held centrally. However, the Executive is currently considering the future collection of this information.

NHS Waiting Lists

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many citizens were registered as waiting for organ transplants, broken down by organ, in each of the last five years.

Malcolm Chisholm: The information, which relates to the transplant units in Scotland, is set out in the following table. The figures do not include Scottish residents waiting for a lung or heart-lung transplant, as they are included on the Newcastle waiting list.

  

 

1998 
  

1999 
  

2000 
  

2001 
  

2002 
  



Kidney 
  

577 
  

584 
  

562 
  

559 
  

577 
  



Pancreas 
  

1 
  

2 
  

1 
  

1 
  

1 
  



Kidney-Pancreas 
  

1 
  

0 
  

4 
  

7 
  

8 
  



Heart* 
  

36 
  

32 
  

0 
  

9 
  

5 
  



Liver 
  

7 
  

6 
  

11 
  

16 
  

18 
  



Total 
  

622 
  

624 
  

578 
  

592 
  

609 
  



  Source: UK Transplant.

  Note:

  *Scottish residents waiting for a heart transplant were included on the Newcastle waiting list while heart transplant operations were suspended at the Scottish Heart Transplant Unit between May 2000 and September 2001.

NHS Waiting Lists

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available regarding waiting times for a first out-patient appointment with a consultant following a referral.

Malcolm Chisholm: Information on recorded waiting times for a first out-patient appointment with a Consultant, following referral by a general medical or dental practitioner, is collected centrally and published quarterly by ISD Scotland on the NHSScotland Acute Activity, Waiting Times and Waiting Lists website at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/acute_activity/quarterly.asp

  Information about prospective waiting times for a first out-patient appointment with a consultant in a selected range of specialties, reflecting the typical experience of a patient being referred by a General Medical Practitioner for a routine appointment, is available on the National Waiting Times Database to all GPs, and through them to patients.

Organ Donation

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has plans to establish a commission to investigate an opt-out system for organ retention to replace the current system and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Transplant Group considered the possibility of an opt-out system for organ donation when developing its Organ Donation Strategy for Scotland . The group concluded, however, that there is no strong evidence that a system of opting out leads to higher donation rates and that such a move did not command the support of a majority of the public or health professionals. Consultation on the strategy showed that most people favoured a strengthening of the present arrangements through a greater emphasis on the importance of fulfilling the known wishes of the deceased in respect of organ donation.

Physiotherapy

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is in each NHS board area for the provision of physiotherapy for individuals suffering from cerebral palsy.

Malcolm Chisholm: The information requested is not available centrally.

Physiotherapy

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many physiotherapists are employed in each NHS board area.

Malcolm Chisholm: The number of qualified physiotherapists employed in each NHS board area at 30 March 2003 is as follows:

  

 

Headcount 
  

WTE 
  



Argyll and Clyde 
  

169 
  

 133.9 
  



Ayrshire and Arran 
  

179 
  

 145.4 
  



Borders 
  

52 
  

 40.6 
  



Dumfries and Galloway 
  

59 
  

 46.6 
  



Fife 
  

149 
  

 115.4 
  



Forth Valley 
  

114 
  

 96.0 
  



Grampian 
  

244 
  

 186.1 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

486 
  

 403.4 
  



Highland 
  

103 
  

 86.1 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

195 
  

 163.5 
  



Lothian 
  

411 
  

 338.3 
  



Orkney 
  

10 
  

 7.3 
  



Shetland 
  

12 
  

 9.0 
  



Tayside 
  

172 
  

 138.4 
  



Western Isles 
  

10 
  

 9.1 
  



Golden Jubilee Hospital 
  

8 
  

 6.6 
  



Scotland 
  

2,373 
  

1 925.7

Physiotherapy

Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to enhance the availability of physiotherapy within the NHS.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Executive recognises the important contribution that Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), including physiotherapists, make to the well-being of patients throughout Scotland. In partnership with NHSScotland, the Executive is supporting enhanced access to physiotherapy through a number of initiatives tackling recruitment and retention issues set out in the AHP strategy Future Directions. As part of this, the Executive has made available £100,000 to explore alternative routes to state registration, £150,000 to support a return to practice initiative and £150,000 to develop specialist AHP practitioner posts.

Planning

Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning applications in Scotland have been called in prior to determination by the local authority since May 1999.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: In the period May 1999 to date one planning application has been called-in prior to determination by the planning authority.

Planning

Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning decisions by local authorities it has called in since May 1999.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: In the period May 1999 to date 125 planning applications have been called-in by the Scottish ministers.

Planning

Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the planning decisions that it has called in since May 1999 have resulted in a reversal or an amendment of the original decision by the local authority.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: The number of planning applications called-in that have resulted in a reversal or amendment of the planning authority’s intention since May 1999 totals 46.

Prison Service

Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to address the levels of overcrowding at Her Majesty's Prison Inverness referred to in the Scottish Prison Service Annual Report 2002-03.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  As a consequence of the need to manage unprecedented prisoner numbers we have no immediate plans to reduce the prisoner numbers at HM Prison Inverness. However, we recognise the pressure this places on the establishment and will be monitoring the situation as part of the wider population management.

Prison Service

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the capacity of each of Scotland's prisons is, specifying how much of this capacity is for single cell and multiple occupancy cell use.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  The figures in the following table are for the period ending 31 March 2003.

  


Establishment 
  

Capacity 
  

Single Occupancy 
  

Multiple Occupancy 
  



Aberdeen 
  

154 
  

126 
  

28 
  



Barlinnie 
  

1,009 
  

1,005 
  

4 
  



Castle Huntly 
  

156 
  

81 
  

75 
  



Cornton Vale 
  

238 
  

230 
  

8 
  



Dumfries 
  

178 
  

129 
  

49 
  



Edinburgh 
  

643 
  

621 
  

22 
  



Glenochil 
  

670 
  

670 
  

0 
  



Greenock 
  

254 
  

248 
  

6 
  



Inverness 
  

108 
  

86 
  

22 
  



Kilmarnock 
  

595 
  

595 
  

0 
  



Low Moss 
  

343 
  

0 
  

343 
  



Noranside 
  

135 
  

97 
  

38 
  



Perth 
  

593 
  

436 
  

157 
  



Peterhead 
  

306 
  

306 
  

0 
  



Polmont 
  

521 
  

411 
  

110 
  



Shotts 
  

528 
  

528 
  

0

Prison Service

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners had to "slop out" in each of the last four years, and in which institutions "slopping out" has taken place over this period.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  The number of prisoners is not recorded. The establishments that have required prisoners to "slop out" in the last four years are: all of HM Prison Peterhead and HM Young Offenders Institution Glenochil (now closed) and sections of HM Prison Barlinnie, HM Prison Edinburgh, HM Prison Perth and HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont.

Prison Service

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have been held in each of Scotland's prisons in each of the last four years, broken down into remand and convicted prisoners.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  The requested information has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number: 29263).

Prison Service

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many prison officers have been employed in each prison in each of the last four years, broken down into (a) part-time and (b) full-time staff, and whether there are recommended numbers of officers for each prison, based on health and safely requirements and prisoner numbers, and, if so, what these numbers are, broken down by individual prison.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is contained in the following table:

   As at 1 September 2000   As at 1 September 2001   As at 1 September 2002   As at 1 September 2003 (A)   (B)   Complement   (A)   (B)   Complement   (A)   (B)   Complement   (A)   (B)   Complement Aberdeen  98   98  106   111  108   111   1   103   119 Barlinnie 392   378 416   413 430   425 417   414 Castle Huntly 31   31 43   39 42   39 39   40 Cornton Vale 148   154   5   151   160   7   176   182   9   172   181 Dumfries 95   97   1   106   106   5   103   106   5   105   105 Edinburgh 294   303 314   330   3   331   328   1   327   308 Glenochil 286   287   1   307   337   3   314   336   3   274   261 Greenock 108   108   1   120   124   1   126   123   3   128   129 Inverness 60   61   2   66   70   1   71   71   1   69   71 Low Moss 91   90 106   112   2   122   112 116   112 Noranside 31   32 42   36 39   36 40   36 Perth 256   252 279   272 282   288   1   290   289 Peterhead 141   144 149   165 140   159 143   150 Polmont 204   203   3   227   228   2   224   231   5   282   293 Shotts  281   270  297   303  306   304   1   293   287 SPS Totals   0   2,516   2,508   13   2,729   2,806   24   2,814   2,851   30   2,798   2,795   

  The staff complement for each prison is not based on health and safety or prisoner numbers, but on a general management assessment of the preferred number needed to help operate the prison.

Prison Service

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have served prison sentences related to illegal drugs use or supply in each of the last four years, broken down by the specific drug involved

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  We do not collect information on the specific drug involved in any drug offence. We also do not have any information available on the number of prisoners finishing a sentence for illegal drug offences. However, we do hold information on sentenced prisoners entering prison where the main crime was a drugs offence. This information is provided in the following table.

  Direct Sentenced Receptions Where the Main Crime was a Drug Offence by Supply/Possession, 1999-2002

  





1999 
  

2000 
  

2001 
  

2002 
  



Possession of drugs 
  

181 
  

112 
  

132 
  

145 
  



Drug supply/trafficking 
  

758 
  

677 
  

801 
  

769 
  



Unknown type of drugs offence 
  

1 
  

4 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Total 
  

940 
  

793 
  

933 
  

914

Recycling

Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities provide a service whereby items for recycling are collected from outside homes.

Ross Finnie: Information on which local authorities provide a kerbside recycling collection service can be found in the Local Authority Waste Arisings Survey 2001-02 summary reports, available on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) website (http://www.sepa.org.uk/nws/data/local.htm). The Waste Data Digest 3, which is due to be published by SEPA later this year, will summarise information on kerbside recycling.

Road Safety

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the reasons are for the trend for road traffic offences to increase and what action it is taking to address this issue.

Hugh Henry: The overall number of road traffic offences recorded by the police in Scotland is lower in 2002 than in each of the previous three years. Between 1999 and 2002, the number of offences fell by 3%. There were decreases in careless driving offences, speeding offences and vehicle defect offences, though increases were recorded in drink-driving and unlawful use of a vehicle.

  A range of measures is being taken forward to address drink-driving as set out in the answer to question S2W-611 on 16 June 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:

  http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Road Safety

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive how it will address the increase over the past four years in driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

Hugh Henry: The Scottish Road Safety Campaign (SRSC), funded by the Executive, runs publicity campaigns on both drink and drug driving and works closely with the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS). The SRSC’s next planned activity in relation to drink-driving will coincide with an ACPOS’ festive safety campaign. The next phase of the SRSC’s drug-driving campaign will take place from October 2003, when an advert will highlight the use of field impairment testing by police officers in the detection of drug-impaired drivers. Screenings of this advert on television and in cinemas, together with radio advertising, will take place in October and November. A leaflet highlighting the facts about drug-driving will also be distributed to drug action teams to coincide with the campaign.

  In addition to the range of policies we are taking forward to tackle alcohol and drug misuse generally, specific action on drug-driving includes new powers in the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 to provide the police with specific roadside testing powers; material distributed as part of the Know the Score campaign to explain the risks of driving under the influence of drugs, and since 2001-02, an additional annual amount of £125,000 made available by the Executive to police forces in Scotland to facilitate analysis of drug-driving samples. Following the Plan for Action on alcohol problems, published in January 2002, which set out a range of action on culture change, prevention and education, services and protection and controls, there has been high profile advertising to tackle binge drinking and action on a national framework for the delivery of services, including those to rehabilitate drink drivers.

Scottish Household Survey

John Scott (Ayr) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how much the Scottish Household Survey has cost in each of the last four years.

Ms Margaret Curran: Expenditure on the Scottish Household Survey by the Scottish Executive in each of the last four financial years has been as follows:

  


1999-2000 
  

£547,000 
  



2000-01 
  

£717,000 
  



2001-02 
  

£739,000 
  



2002-03 
  

£841,000

Scottish Law Commission

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost has been of the Scottish Law Commission's review of the case of Sharp v Thomson and the subsequent discussion paper on the matter, broken down by spending category.

Hugh Henry: Detailed information about the commission's operational costs is not held centrally and enquiries should be addressed directly to the Secretary of the Commission.

Scottish Law Commission

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to implement the recommendations of the Scottish Law Commission’s Discussion Paper No 114, published in July 2001.

Hugh Henry: The Scottish Law Commission published a Discussion Paper on the case of Sharp  v Thomson  (DP No 114) on 16 July 2001 and the consultation period ended on the 31 October 2001. The commission have not made their recommendations yet. The main reason for this is the subsequent case of Burnett's Trustees  v  Grainger which raised similar issues and is currently on appeal to the House of Lords. Given the dependency of this appeal on the matters raised in Sharp  v Thomson , the commission stated in their 2002 annual report that they were unlikely to start work on their recommendations in 2003.

Scottish Law Commission

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to address any problems which arose from the case of Sharp v Thomson other than through the review by the Scottish Law Commission.

Hugh Henry: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-2577 today, which is available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

  http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

  The commission have not made any recommendations yet, and in these circumstances it would be inappropriate for the Executive to take any action.

Scottish Natural Heritage

John Farquhar Munro (Ross, Skye and Inverness West) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what powers Scottish Natural Heritage has to object formally to applications under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989.

Lewis Macdonald: Scottish Natural Heritage advises ministers on matters relating to Scotland's natural heritage. This extends to providing advice on Electricity Act applications. The final decision on these applications, however, rests with ministers.

Taxation

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the annual (a) gross and (b) net revenue that would be generated if the Parliament used its power to increase general taxation by (i) one pence, (ii) two pence and (iii) three pence in the pound and what the estimated annual cost of applying such a tax increase would be.

Mr Andy Kerr: As the Executive has made it clear that is has no plans to use the power to vary the rate of income tax in either the last or this Parliament, we have not commissioned our own estimates.

  HM Treasury publish an annual estimate as part of the Financial Statement and Budget Report at budget time. Their latest estimate was published in April 2003, as follows: "A one penny change in the Scottish variable rate in 2003-04 could be worth approximately plus or minus £260 million in a full year".

Taxation

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it would be required to pay the Inland Revenue as a collecting agent if the Parliament decides to use its tax-varying powers.

Mr Andy Kerr: Yes.

Teachers

Brian Adam (Aberdeen North) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-1588, S2W-1589, S2W-1590, S2W-1591, S2W-1592 and S2W-1593 by Peter Peacock on 14 August 2003, how many posts there are at each salary point for (a) promoted teachers, and (b) principal teachers of guidance, following the job-sizing exercise on promoted postholders in schools, broken down by local authority.

Peter Peacock: The information cannot be provided in the format requested. To do so could raise data protection issues by potentially revealing personal data to third parties without the consent of the persons concerned.

  The following tables provide the number of posts on each salary point across Scotland. The Scottish Executive generally does not provide data where numbers are five or less.

 Principal Teachers salary point   Number of Principal Teachers   Number of Guidance Principal Teachers   Deputy Headteacher/ Headteacher salary point   Number of Deputy Headteachers/ Headteachers 1   344   141   1   498 2   953   221   2   617 3   2,050   400   3   802 4   2,155   235   4   905 5   1,058   86   5   787 6   384   17   6   517 7   114   *   7   600 8   59   *   8   452   9   359   10   159   11   88   12   60   13   33   14   48   15   82   16   67   17   44   18   22   19   15   

  Note:

  *Number is five or less.

Teachers

Brian Adam (Aberdeen North) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-1588, S2W-1589, S2W-1590, S2W-1591, S2W-1592 and S2W-1593 by Peter Peacock on 14 August 2003, whether the management of assistant principal teacher posts was considered in the weighting process for the job-sizing exercise on promoted postholders in schools.

Peter Peacock: Yes. The management of all teaching and non-teaching staff was taken into consideration in the job sizing process.

Vaccines

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider offering single vaccination clinics to parents as an alternative to the MMR triple vaccine in light of the reduction in triple vaccine take-up over the last five years.

Malcolm Chisholm: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-989 on 14 July 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search

Vaccines

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the take-up for the MMR triple vaccine has been in Glasgow for each of the last five years.

Malcolm Chisholm: In each of the last five years MMR uptake figures in the area served by NHS Greater Glasgow were:

  


Year 
  

% Uptake of One Dose of MMR at Age Two Years 
  

% Uptake of Two Doses of MMR at Age Six 
  Years 
  



1998 
  

92.5 
  

84.5 
  



1999 
  

93.0 
  

91.4 
  



2000 
  

92.7 
  

91.2 
  



2001 
  

86.3 
  

89.4 
  



2002 
  

86.0 
  

91.1

Water Charges

Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports recommendation 10 of the report of the Scottish Charity Law Review Commission that Scottish charities should receive mandatory 80% relief from water and sewerage charges.

Ms Margaret Curran: The Scottish Executive responded in full to   the McFadden Report on 16 December 2002. In our response we indicated that we had already said in the context of the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 that we supported the phased withdrawal of relief from water and sewerage charges.

  To help organisations adjust to the withdrawal of relief, the Water and Sewerage Charges (Exemption) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 provide for an exemption scheme run by Scottish Water. This exempts from all water and sewerage charges until 2006, organisations which received relief in March 1999, have a net annual income of less than £50,000 and are not a retail outlets, have permanent liquor licences or are part of a local authority. A transitional hardship fund was also established to assist those organisations who would not qualify for the exemption scheme but who would suffer real hardship as a result of the withdrawal of relief.

Water Services

Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what share of water capital expenditure costs is funded by (a) customers, (b) borrowing and (c) other sources, broken down by domestic and non-domestic user for each of the last five years.

Ross Finnie: Scottish Water’s operating and capital costs are met from a combination of revenue and borrowing. For the three former water authorities and Scottish Water, the information is available from the audited accounts as laid before the Scottish Parliament. Bib. numbers for the Parliament’s Reference Centre are as follows:

  


Water Authorities’ 
Published Accounts 
  

Scottish Parliament’s Reference Centre – 
  Bib. numbers 
  



SW 
  

NoSWA 
  

ESWA


WoSWA




1998-99 
  

- 
  

4005 
  

12835 
  

4004 
  



1999-2000 
  

- 
  

8790 
  

7898 
  

7925 
  



2000-01 
  

- 
  

16464 
  

17792 
  

16463 
  



2001-02 
  

- 
  

24607 
  

24610 
  

24612 
  



2002-03 
  

028754 
  

- 
  

- 
  

- 
  



  Further information on capital expenditure undertaken by the three water authorities is also available in the Water Industry Commissioner’s Investment and Asset Management Report 2000-02, which may be found on the internet at http://www.watercommissioner.co.uk/NRs&Publications.htm.